November 27th in Black History:
1895. Black French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas died.
1928. Marjorie Joyner received a patent for a hair wave machine. Her permanent hair wave machine, U.S. Patent # 1,693,515, could wave the hair of both white and black people
1942. Johnny Allen Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington. His father later renamed him James Marshall Hendrix, and eventually, James came to be called Jimi. He taught himself to play the guitar at a young age. Jimi was left handed, but the guitars available to him were right-hand strung, so for his whole life, Jimi played the guitar upside down! He went on to be a 60s rock icon, and although he died at the very young age of 27, he was one of the most influential presences in the whole rock genre.
1957. Dorothy Height was elected president of the National Council of Negro Women.
1960. Patrice Emery Lumumba fled Leopoldville, Congo. The pan-Africanist Prime Minister was betrayed by Western puppets Joseph Mobutu, Joseph Kasavubu, and Moise Tshombe. He was eventually murdered and his assassins turned against each other. This was one of Africa’s greatest tragedies.
1968. Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party, jumped $50,000 bail and fled to Mexico City and then to Cuba, where he remained until 1969.
1976. Jaleel White was born in Pasadena, California. He started acting in commercials at the age of 3. His first televison role was on CBS's The Jeffersons in 1985. He is best remembered as being the ever annoying and loveable Steve Urkel for Warner Brother's Hit series Family Matters.
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